Politics

KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, Israel – Israel is easing its blockade of Hamas-ruled Gaza to allow in virtually all consumer goods, but the new rules are unlikely to restore the territory’s devastated economy or allow rebuilding […] […]

CARACAS, Venezuela—South America’s 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar was reunited Monday with his controversial and audacious lover at a graveside ceremony. A coffer containing the symbolic remains of Manuela Saenz, an audacious woman credited […] […]

A SHARP rise in the number of defections from North Korea by sea since the Cheonan sinking in March has South Korean authorities on spy alert. South Korean military authorities say there were five seaborne […] […]

BARACK Obama is being urged to drop his deadline of July next year to start US troop withdrawals from Afghanistan Fears are rising that the deadline has emboldened the Taliban. The US President’s deadline was […] […]

OTTAWA-In a surprise move, Canada’s chief spy stood by his comments that some Canadian politicians are being unduly influenced by foreign power. But while telling a parliamentary committee he regrets making the candid remarks, Richard […] […]

Sweeping reforms to parliamentary constituencies will be introduced alongside moves to change the voting system, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced. The Government’s proposed boundary review, equalising the size of all but two constituencies, […] […]

TURKEY has threatened to sever diplomatic ties with Israel unless it apologises over the raid on an aid convoy to Gaza in which nine Turks died. “Relations will be broken” unless Israel apologises or accepts […] […]

An American geologist detained and tortured by China’s state security agents over an oil industry database was jailed for eight years on Monday in a troubling example of China’s rough justice system and the way […] […]

THE government on Friday, for the first time, clearly admitted that it had engaged in discussions with United States officials about the adverse impact the “timing” of the extradition of former West Kingston strongman Christopher […] […]

The national police camera network that records motorists’ movements is to come under tighter regulation, the Home Office has said. Home Secretary Theresa May has ordered that the surveillance system should be placed under statutory […] […]